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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1956
Page
2
Mrs William Koch aged 97, a great grandmother, married 77 year old widower in her daughter's home New York on a Tuesday night The couple met when Koch rented a basement apartment They plan to live in a first floor unit She jokes about needing companionship and may help from her husband, while she still does her own chores.
Secretary of the Air Force Quarles warned at a college association meeting that long range Russian jet bombers in production could deliver atomic weapons on the United States. He noted large Russian fleets of advanced jets and bombers are in operation and warned of growing Soviet capability in atomic weapon delivery and scientific manpower. He urged a sustained air atomic retaliation reserve and strong forces around the periphery to deter aggression and expose covert tactics.
In Mountain View California the West Coast eaters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church opened a three day meeting to discuss combating crime producing juvenile literature. About 260 Pacific Union Conference officials planned to examine Christian magazines to counter rising crime filled juvenile publications and indecent adult material.
William Rabkin a 68 year old New York manufacturer of coin operated amusement machines died Tuesday night in a plunge from his sixth floor apartment. His son Martin 24 said his father suffered dizzy spells from high blood pressure. Police said the bay window opens outward and the sill is 214 feet above the floor. Rabkin was president of the International Mutoscope Corp nicknamed The Gadgeteer King of the World.
A damaged OCR fragment lists a Geleoram daily notice and bureau of circulation details including an address at Lone Bras and references to an office entry. The readable text is fragmentary and does not provide a clear event or outcome.
South Asian prime ministers representing 475 million people condemn Soviet withdrawal delays and urge a peaceful, rapid Soviet forces withdrawal from Hungary. They insist Hungarians decide their own future free from external pressure and intervention. The communique followed a three day conference convened to discuss Middle East and Suez tensions.
A clipped notice references Robert Jones Banlette an aged lecturer with unclear affiliation. The fragment hints at themes of worry and time linking yesterday and tomorrow.
Martha Peterson cries for help as her legs are trapped while her husband is hurled from a cabin. Dr Peterson endures a five hour struggle to rescue his wife as the liner sinks slowly, a tale from Reader's Digest November issue detailing the harrowing rescue and the ship's fate.
A group of teen crewmen from the American Talend were rescued after their tuna clipper sank near Santa Elena in the Pacific. They boarded lifeboats, were picked up by the Hornet, then transferred to the American vessel Agresores which had been set on fire. The men were brought to Talara, Peru, with no injuries reported.
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